On Friday, the Trump administration released the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment, the “authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States,” as the report states.
What’s so stunning about the 600-page report, the work of scientists from 13 federal agencies, is that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) oversaw the final review and clearance process of the report — and yet the report details just how dangerous the Trump administration’s policy of climate science denial is to Americans.
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) projects a devastated America — widespread Dust-Bowlification, 18°F Arctic warming, sea levels rising a foot a decade — on our current path of unrestricted carbon pollution. The report makes clear just how grave a threat are Trump’s plans to abandon the Paris climate deal, undo Obama-era climate rules, and boost carbon pollution.
Indeed, the report explicitly states that if governments don’t meet their Paris targets, and then go beyond them, catastrophic impacts would be inevitable.
The report “indicates that a path of inaction will truly lead to disastrous climate change impacts,” as climatologist Michael Mann said in an email to ThinkProgress, confirming a point he made when the New York Times published the leaked final draft in August. “Sadly, the Trump presidency has steered the U.S. toward this path.”
“Based on extensive evidence… it is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century,” explains the NCA, the most comprehensive and detailed report ever done on climate change and its specific impact on America.
No wonder Trump wants to get rid of all the real scientists in the government agencies.
These guys are clearly relying on those liberal facts to make decisions, instead of the Trumpian talking points that everybody is supposed to have memorized.
The drumpfs way of extorting money from oil corps. After loyalty and money from oil corps., he will once again say there is no man made pollution its fake news. Believe me.
ReplyDeleteTrump and his cronies also want to mine uranium in the Grand Canyon.
ReplyDeletehttps://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-recommends-uranium-mining-in-the-grand-canyon-dac9e04080d5/
DeleteT"he report was one of several requested by Trump’s “energy independence” executive order, which directed all agencies to identify regulations that potentially “burden” fo$$ilfuel development."
In exchange for lifting sanctions, Putin was going to give trump a chunk of the russian oil company. It's in the steele dossier.
ReplyDeleteAlso, trumps daughter got a 100 million dollars for her "foundation" from the Saudis. That was when trump gave them those arms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/business/saudi-prince-alwaleed-investor.html
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar
"As of 2012, Qatar has proven oil reserves of 15 billion barrels and gas fields that account for more than 13% of the global resource. As a result, it is the richest state per-capita in the world."
?rump posted a tweet about the IPO of a Saudi Arabian government OIL company. We don’t know what role Trump and Kushner played in the palace coup"
Deletedick FUCK cheney isis JiZZing HIS deplorable$
America has a
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orange
hollow
hollering shape where a leader should be.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy are right to ignore him and make his dangerous nonsense spouting irrelevant.
Others are doing the same. This monster & his enablers shall pass -- roll on the investigations...
Pick a side GOP -- tick tock.
MSNBC just reported Mueller has enough evidence to indict Flynn and his retard son on charges related to kidnapping.
ReplyDeleteI have been waiting for this to surface. Flynn Jr can now tell the feds that Comet Pizza child sex ring is the real story as they lock his dumb ass up.
LOCK HIM UP and his bat shit crazy son.
WHAT? AMERICAN DESIGNERS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE IMIGRANT?
ReplyDelete(CNN)First lady Melania Trump exited Air Force One Sunday in Tokyo, Japan, dressed smartly in a coat by Italian fashion house, Fendi, a leather pencil skirt by her frequent couturier, Hervé Pierre, and her ubiquitous sky-high Manolo Blahnik heels.
That's all she has. The clothes. That's her reason to get up in the morning else she would probably have jumped off those golden towers where she lives.
DeleteShe still a skank naked touching her crotchy.
DeleteOh, get real.
ReplyDeleteThe scientists snuck one by. No one in the White House office of science and technology read that 600 page report. They rubber stamped it, assuming their guidelines, hopes and wishes were followed. The scientists, in defiance, wrote the truth.
Wait until tomorrow. The White House will be walking back and denying all sorts of stuff in that report, and they'll make the scientists do it over to their liking, then they'll fire them and replace them with yes-men lackeys.